Colombian Players Who Missed Penalties Where Told To ‘Kill Themselves’

Following Colombia’s defeat against England last night on penalties, (July 3), players who missed for Colombia have received death threats.


Only minutes after the game came to an end, some of Colombia’s players started to receive vile abuse from supporters.

Mateus Uribe and Carlos Bacca both missed in the penalty shootout, with Uribe’s attempt hitting the crossbar and Bacca’s shot being saved in an incredible display of reflexes from England’s ‘keeper, Jordan Pickford.

While England fans burst into celebration, outraged Colombia fans took to social media to tell the players to ‘kill themselves’.

One twitter user wrote (translated):

Die Carlos Bacca. Son of a bitch. No-one wants you, gonorrhoea. To this country you don’t return

Another wrote (translated):

I hate you Carlos Bacca, I hate all of you, I hate your indifference, your animal surname, and your ass’s game. You’re worse than a cancer, at least with cancer you can go to a doctor and find out what you have.

Carlos Bacca, get depressed and kill yourself, so you don’t continue living this agony.

However, other fans stuck up for them, praising them for their performance and reminding others how no one can be perfect.

One tweet read (translated):

Thanks my Colombia x avernos represented so well and Carlos Bacca many blessings everything does not have to be perfect.

The threats to the players came on the 24th anniversary of the death of Andres Escobar, who was shot dead after he scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup and was blamed for sending Colombia home.

Before the start of 2018’s World Cup in Russia, Escobar’s brother raised fears how Colombia had ‘not learned the lessons’ of the murder of Escobar, and how another player might be killed if Colombia were knocked out before the quarter-finals of the tournament.